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Meteor Ablation Telemetry: Mass, Heat Flux & Survival

2D telemetry-style simulation of a meteoroid's atmospheric entry: live stacked strip charts of velocity, remaining mass and Sutton-Graves heating rate, plus a shrinking-body altitude gauge, predict whether it burns up, air-bursts or reaches the ground.

Space & Astronomy2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted💨 Air & Wind ⇄ 3D version

A 2D telemetry read-out of the same meteoroid atmospheric-entry physics as the 3D flight-path visualization, driven by a live step-by-step integrator instead of a precomputed replayed trajectory. A shrinking body on a vertical altitude gauge tracks mass loss in real time, while three stacked strip charts trace velocity, remaining mass and Sutton-Graves heat flux against elapsed time. Tune initial mass, entry velocity, entry angle, ablation coefficient and composition to see whether the body burns up, air-bursts, or survives to reach the ground.

⚙ Under the hood

A 2D telemetry-style companion to the 3D meteor entry visualization: live stacked strip charts of velocity, remaining mass and Sutton-Graves heat flux, plus a shrinking-body altitude gauge, predict whether the meteoroid burns up, air-bursts or reaches the ground.

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2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install